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Pete Aguilar

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  1. “I think Democratic leadership would have needed to have a lot of discussions about this as chair of the Democratic Caucus. My job is also to convene everybody and to make sure that everybody is heard, make sure we all have the same information and we're operating on the same wavelength. And I would have wanted to do that with this proposal if it came from the Senate as is. I wanted to make sure everybody had the right information. Ultimately on balance, I think that it would have been something that I would have voted for. And I think that it would have had overwhelming support within the House of Representatives.”

    2024-02-29 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · Ep. 570 — Rep. Pete Aguilar · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source

  2. “And then President Trump weighed in, and that's it, Donald Trump's grip on the Republican Party is so strong it will prevent anything positive from, would you have?”

    2024-02-29 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · Ep. 570 — Rep. Pete Aguilar · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source

  3. “I don't want to get ahead of, and I don't know what is final from a proposal perspective. And you know this from your prior job. There's always trial balloons. There's all these trial balloons and things that are flooded. And so I want to deal with fact. And the fact is Congress has walked away from our ability to do something big. The Senate had a bipartisan solution. It was not perfect. I had concerns about aspects of the proposal. I'm happy to go chapter and verse with you on, but it was a bipartisan solution that had 60 votes in the Senate. And that is how we pass laws. And so, but Speaker Johnson said pretty early on that he did.”

    2024-02-29 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · Ep. 570 — Rep. Pete Aguilar · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source

  4. “An issue that I feel passionate about and have been working on in a bipartisan way for years. But if we can't do that, which should be the most simplest thing that probably 85% of the country agrees in, how can we be expected to do big things? And so it's a frustration point, but it's something that is so important. And I fundamentally believe that executive action is just not the solution on this. Congress needs to do the hard work.”

    2024-02-29 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · Ep. 570 — Rep. Pete Aguilar · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source

  5. “I think that's right, but I see this too. There's 42 members of the Congressional Hispanic Caucus. Each of us has our own family story and history as well. And each of us approaches this issue differently. We all feel passionate about this. And there is some differing viewpoints at times, but our compassion and our humanity is really the kind of guiding point when it comes to our democratic values. We debate, we discuss, we disagree, but ultimately we want a system that works. And I think the frustration that people see today at the border, and we should acknowledge that it is a broken system, and it is in part broken because Congress for over 30 years has not done anything about it. We have not put a pathway to citizenship for dreamers, which should be the easiest issue.”

    2024-02-29 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · Ep. 570 — Rep. Pete Aguilar · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source

  6. “Try to use one brush with the community when it has to be much more nuanced. It has to be much more specific. But it should still be aspirational. Latino dream is the American dream. Better quality of life for our kids, better education, clean air, clean water, upward mobility. That's what we all care about. But there is some nuance that just sometimes is lost on people.”

    2024-02-29 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · Ep. 570 — Rep. Pete Aguilar · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source

  7. “It truly is, and we know this. We know this in data, but we just know this anecdotally and Arizona teaches us a lot of these lessons too. You can't talk to the Latino community in Phoenix the same way that you talk to the Latino community in the Rio Grande Valley in South Texas or in South Florida or in Southern California even. They are just very different communities, but even then, the difference between first generation Latinos versus third and fourth generation Latinos is very different as well. And so from the political punditocracy, you know, side, it's just so different. And I agree. I mean, we're not a monolith, but it is almost very regional. And I think people who make mistakes, including at times, presidential campaigns.”

    2024-02-29 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · Ep. 570 — Rep. Pete Aguilar · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source

  8. “Yes, it's a very loose term, but we're trying. We're trying. But for them, it was a difficult decision, but they would almost keep us away from Spanish in the house. They would speak Spanish to each other. My grandparents would speak Spanish to them, but they didn't want the grandkids to speak as much Spanish growing up.”

    2024-02-29 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · Ep. 570 — Rep. Pete Aguilar · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source

  9. “There was so much at the time my parents went to high school. And if you spoke Spanish, you hung out over there. And so they raised us to be assimilated. They raised us that we were absolutely going to college. They didn't know where. They didn't really know what that meant, by the way, either, but that we were going to college, that we were going to do well, but they didn't want us held down by anything. And they would make a different decision now probably.”

    2024-02-29 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · Ep. 570 — Rep. Pete Aguilar · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source

  10. “That it just was so formative, so helpful for me. But it was also that one government program changed the arc of my family's history. My grandfather got to go back to work. He got to help his family. He got to provide for his family, taught them life lessons, raised five amazing kids. My dad being one of them, blue-collar family. Nobody went to college right out of high school. My brother and I were the first to go to go to college in the family. But it just taught us so much about hard work and determination.”

    2024-02-29 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · Ep. 570 — Rep. Pete Aguilar · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source

  11. “And people say Manuel, number one, enchiladas, beans and rice, and a diet coke, and a 10. And he would make change. And he knew his cash register. He knew his cafeteria. He also knew his yard. He mowed his lawn until he was in his 70s, edging his lawn by hand, mowing his lawn. I mean, he just had such command of those two places that he spent 99% of his time. But just it just taught so much to me about community and family that he would put his faith in people to tell them the truth and to give them. And some people didn't know what do you mean? Can't you see I have a, because some people didn't know that he was blind because he operated so efficiently, of course I have a diet coke.”

    2024-02-29 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · Ep. 570 — Rep. Pete Aguilar · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source

  12. “Program to the Department of Rehabilitation that was, it's a small program called the Randolph Shepherd Act that still exists to this day to give individuals legally blind individuals a preference to be owner operators. On the East Coast, this tends to be like rest stops and things. And on the West Coast, it has kind of tended to be military commissaries, courthouse cafeterias, which my grandfather ran. It was my first job as a kid, you know, 13 years old, 14 years old working for him over the summers and the holidays whenever we didn't have school, bus and tables. It was a single cash register. And people would come up to him and he would say, he would ask people two questions. What do you have and what have you given me?”

    2024-02-29 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · Ep. 570 — Rep. Pete Aguilar · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source

  13. “Yeah, it was really just such a formative. I mean, he was the person in my life. My parents were amazing, but I just hung out with my grandparents a lot. The lessons that they taught us every weekend, large Latino family, we all lived in the same city. So we all, you know, the only question every weekend was whose house are we going to be at? Is it going to be my uncles and my aunts, my grandparents? Are we hosting? And my grandfather just taught us so many lessons about hard work. And as a kid, he was blind and he worked. And I didn't think anything of it. But the adversity that he had, Korean War, then he worked for the railroad, and then he lost his eyesight through a disease. And his life could have went in a number of directions. My dad was a teenager at the time when my grandfather completely lost his sight. My grandmother and a friend of his turned him on to a small government.”

    2024-02-29 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · Ep. 570 — Rep. Pete Aguilar · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source

  14. “I am Nobil Bradley, not a Rhodes Scholar, not a Hall of Fame athlete. But the lessons that sports teaches you in general Teamwork, the importance of working together, especially baseball and football, big team sports. That was incredibly helpful to me, but also just patience and poise, discipline, hard work that you generally win the games before you even have them based on your effort and your work and your preparation. All of those pieces were just so helpful to me, such important life lessons and something that I take over to this job as well.”

    2024-02-29 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · Ep. 570 — Rep. Pete Aguilar · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source

  15. “Yeah, I think that's really fair to say my parents separated and then divorced when I was in high school. My brother played a huge role in my life. My parents were both around, but that's a tough time in a household. And I played football and baseball. idea of going from school into sports, being able to kind of lose myself in that for a few hours really meant a lot. And then I got cut from my high school baseball team. So then I learned how to play golf. So I still was out of the house.”

    2024-02-29 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · Ep. 570 — Rep. Pete Aguilar · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source

  16. “But my parents were not into sports, but my brother and I were, and they didn't know what to do with us. And so they just kept putting us in sports and we just, we loved baseball. And so my brother and I played a lot of baseball growing up.”

    2024-02-29 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · Ep. 570 — Rep. Pete Aguilar · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source

  17. “really important to me growing up. I've always been a Dodger fan, but I do have to admit that coming home from school, Catholic school as a kid, I would turn on the TV and everybody was a Braves fan or a Cubs fan too. Yes. That's good.”

    2024-02-29 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · Ep. 570 — Rep. Pete Aguilar · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source